My wife and I are also full-time residents of Palm Springs who leave our air conditioner at 80 during the day and shut it off at night. Of the 20 houses on our street, 10 are vacation homes and others are, at the most, two person residences, mostly single occupiers.

The other residential blocks around us have approximately the same ratio of live-in owners compared to transient weekend occupancy.

I have been in contact with Edison and suggested that they do an actual neighborhood study instead of sending out their ridiculous letters that have no basis of fact. They have been put on notice that a CPUC complaint will be next.

Every time the Democratic Party tries to challenge the ballot access petitions of third parties, such as the Green Party, they are also indirectly helping the Republican Party — especially after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act.

Challenging the legality of ballot access petitions from the Green Party risks alienating the voting rights of registered voters who might have signed Green Party ballot access campaign petitions that were removed from the ballot. If the Democrats and Republicans are locked in a close election race, the Republican Party might challenge the legality of certain ballots cast during the election.

Theoretically, if the election race is happening in a race where the Green Party candidate was struck from the ballot due to a denied ballot access petition, the Republican Party might scan the Green Party's campaign signatures and disqualify any voter who might have signed the disqualified ballot access petitions and voted for a Democratic Party candidate. Signing a ballot access petition and casting a vote are two different activities. However, the Republican Party might exploit the Democratic Party's challenge of Green Party ballot access petitions by purging every voter who signed a failed Green Party ballot access petition by arguing that obviously there was a reason for the Democrats to challenge the petition.